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Rimes Offers Clients DEI Data from Denominator
Diversity, equity and inclusivity (DEI) metrics specialist Denominator is to provide data and scores to financial institution clients of ESG data management company Rimes Technologies. Rimes, which won two gongs in this year’s A-Team Innovation Awards, described the new partnership as a “great addition to our data universe”. Denominator’s metrics are based on more than…
S&P Sustainable1 Physical Risk Scores Offer Social Impact Window
E, S and G is generally regarded in aggregation, but data products and services usually measure each individually. S&P Global Sustainable1 business, however, believes the geolocated company and climate data combined in its new physical risks metrics are providing a means of measuring the conjunction of the first two of ESG’s pillars. The global rating…
Start-up Net Purpose Has Sustainable Investing in its Sights
The well-known maxim “if you want something done well, do it yourself” is one that Samantha Duncan has taken to heart. After years working as head of impact at emerging markets-focused LeapFrog Investments, she found herself inspired by the continuous flows of sustainable capital, but frustrated: not only was the data challenge to measure ESG…
A-Team Group Names Winners of ESG Insight Awards
A-Team Group announced the winners of its inaugural ESG Insight Awards today. The awards recognise both established solution vendors and innovative newcomers providing leading ESG solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants. The awards included over 20 categories of ESG solutions ranging from Best ESG risk data provider to Best overall ESG data provider,…
As Biodiversity Climbs the ESG Agenda, ISS Unveils Nature-Linked Products
Institutional Shareholder Services’ (ISS) has launched a suite of nature- and natural resources-linked products as biodiversity protection and risk mitigation rise in prominence on among investor concerns. ISS ESG’s Biodiversity Impact Assessment Tool and the latest addition to its ESG indices, the Freshwater Index Series, are intended to give financial institutions better visibility into the…
ACA to Give Clients ‘Deep ESG Data Relationship’ With Ethos Acquisition
US-based compliance adviser to global asset managers ACA Group believes it can provide its clients with the critical ingredient they need to establish their ESG programmes – a deep understanding and relationship with sustainability data. The New York-headquartered company has acquired data specialist Ethos ESG, which provides data and ratings across the sustainability spectrum. Ethos’…
Fitch Unveils Scoring Product Under its New Sustainable Fitch Brand
Sustainable Fitch, the ratings and data company’s ESG unit, has created a ratings product that scores that will provide investors with information on the impact, outcome and performance of entities and their debt issuance. The ESG Ratings, Data and Analysis product offers scores at the entity, framework and financial instrument level.
Liquidnet Joins Sustainable Trading
Liquidnet, the technology-driven agency execution specialist, has become a member of Sustainable Trading, the non-profit membership network launched earlier this year, dedicated to transforming environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices within the financial markets trading industry. Sustainable Trading brings firms together to devise practical and sustainable solutions to industry-specific ESG issues, as well as providing…
Morningstar to Showcase ESG ‘Digital Experience’ Product
An ESG-focused “digital experience” is to be unveiled by Morningstar, designed to give an all-round view of sustainable investing strategies. Comprising data from the financial services research giant’s own ESG Risk Ratings and Impact Metrics, the Investable World product promises to show in plain language and graphs the risks and opportunities in 750 thematic funds….
Denominator Helps Finbourne Plug the DEI Gap for Conscientious Investors
Anders Rodenberg, chief executive of social metrics and data provider Denominator, responds with his own question when asked why diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) considerations should matter to investors. “Is it right that an asset manager who gets half their money from women should invest in companies that don’t have a single woman on its…